{"id":40599,"date":"2017-07-12T17:46:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T23:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=40599"},"modified":"2017-07-12T20:58:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T02:58:51","slug":"oxford-blues-fest-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-blues-fest-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"8th Annual Oxford Blues Fest Is Coming Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The Oxford Blues Festival<\/strong>\u00a0is just days away and we&#8217;ve got the full schedule from Friday to Sunday for you to plan out every last minute of your blues-filled weekend. You don&#8217;t want to miss out on the classic sounds of <strong>R.L. Boyce Band<\/strong>, <strong>Hill Country Stomp<\/strong>, and the big headliner <strong>Cedric Burnside Project<\/strong>. Saturday at the Grove stage you also have the chance to be drawn as the winner of the guitar raffle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Check out the full schedule below and head to the <a href=\"http:\/\/oxfordbluesfest.com\/\">Oxford Blues Festival Website<\/a> for more details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/web-effieburt.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2568\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/web-effieburt.jpg?resize=300%2C269\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Friday, July 14<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>Tallahatchie Gourmet<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>BEN WILEY PAYTON<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u201cTHE GREAT\u201d EFFIE BURT<\/strong> (6\u201310 pm)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Saturday, July 15 <\/strong>(Free)<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>J.D. Williams Library in the Blues Archive<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Free Blues Panel Discussion with <strong>BEVERLY &#8220;GUITAR&#8221; WATKINS<\/strong>, one of the greatest blues guitarist of all time (11 am\u2013noon)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Discover the interesting artifact in the <strong>Ole Miss Blues Archives<\/strong> with <strong>GREG JOHNSON<\/strong> (12:15\u20131 pm)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Grove Stage<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>HILL COUNTRY STOMP<\/strong> (1:15\u20132:30 pm)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>SEVEN MILE MUSHROOM<\/strong> (2:45\u20134 pm)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>R.L. BOYCE BAND<\/strong> (4:15\u20135:30 pm)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>THE KING BEES<\/strong> (5:45\u20136:05 pm)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>BEVERLY \u201cGUITAR\u201d WATKINS &amp; THE KING BEE<\/strong>S (6:05\u20136:55 pm)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Guitar Raffle (7:15 pm)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>CEDRIC BURNSIDE PROJECT<\/strong> (7:30\u20138:45 pm)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cedricburnside.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9460 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cedricburnside.jpg?resize=600%2C380\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cedricburnside.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cedricburnside.jpg?resize=300%2C190&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Sunday, July 16 <span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">(Admission Charged)<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Gospel Brunch with <strong>A FAMILY AFFAIR GOSPEL SINGERS<\/strong> at <strong>The Mesquite Chop House<\/strong> (11 am\u20131 pm)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oxford Blues Festival\u00a0is just days away and we&#8217;ve got the full schedule from Friday to Sunday for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":40600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[10674,526,10670,10662,6143,532,10086,5557,10669,5248,5,642,10671,4,3271,6705,10672,2123,2012,10673,753],"class_list":["post-40599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-localfestivals","tag-a-family-affair-gospel-singers","tag-ben-wiley-payton","tag-beverly-guitar-watkins","tag-blues-fest","tag-cedric-burnside-project","tag-effie-burt","tag-free-music","tag-greg-johnson","tag-hill-country-stomp","tag-mesquite-chop-house","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-ole-miss-blues-archives","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-blues-festival","tag-r-l-boyce","tag-seven-mile-mushroom","tag-tallahatchie-gourmet","tag-the-grove","tag-the-king-bees","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-12-blues.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}